School of Electrical and Computer Engineering Theses and Dissertations: Recent submissions
Now showing items 1-20 of 3084
-
Design and Analysis of Millimeter-wave Backhaul Networks in Urban Environments
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2019-09-03)The objective of this dissertation is to design and analyze the relay-assisted mmWave backhaul network in the urban environment for 5G communication systems. First, for constructing a multi-hop relay path between a pair ... -
Asphalt pavement crack detection and classification using deep convolutional neural networks
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2020-08-03)The Georgia Department of Transport (GDOT) maintains around 12,000 miles of interstate roadways. Annual pavement surveys are conducted to report the condition of the pavement. Survey engineers from GDOT conduct manual ... -
Fundamentals of bacteria-based molecular communication for Internet of Bio-Nanothings
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2020-07-27)Today, thanks to synthetic biology, we can engineer living cells as biosensor devices and thanks to MEMS & nanotechnology, we can manufacture electronic devices at nanoscale. Molecular communication (MC), a novel communication ... -
Coverage control: From heterogeneous robot teams to expressive swarms
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2020-07-27)Coverage control constitutes a canonical multi-robot coordination strategy that allows a collection of robots to distribute themselves over a domain to optimally monitor the relevant features of the environment. This thesis ... -
Toward infrastructure mobility for next-generation wireless networks
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2020-07-28)The objective of the proposed research is to investigate the methods to enhance the robustness of wireless communications using infrastructure mobility. The position of a wireless device in a network has considerable ... -
Improving vision-based robotic manipulation with affordance understanding
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2020-07-27)The objective of the thesis is to improve robotic manipulation via vision-based affordance understanding, which would advance the application of robotics to industrial use cases, as well as impact the area of assistive ... -
An object-oriented distribution system distributed quasi-dynamic state estimator
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2020-07-28)This dissertation develops an object-oriented distribution system distributed quasi-dynamic state estimator (DS-DQDSE) that constantly monitors the states of the distribution system and provides the validated data to the ... -
Soft-switching solid-state transformer for traction applications
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2020-07-27)Conventionally, power converters in traction systems interface with the medium-voltage (MV) catenary through a low-frequency transformer (LFT) operating at 16.7 Hz/50 Hz/60 Hz. The LFT converts the MV AC to low-voltage ... -
Scheduling and assignment on dynamic processor networks
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2020-07-27)We address the problem of scheduling tasks characterized by dynamic completion time behavior. Existing scheduling methodologies reduce problems to using constant task durations and are therefore not suitable for problems ... -
Fast and low-precision learning in GPU-accelerated spiking neural network
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2020-07-27)Spiking neural network (SNN) uses biologically inspired neuron model coupled with Spike-timing-dependent-plasticity (STDP) to enable unsupervised continuous learning in artificial intelligence (AI) platform. However, current ... -
Millimeter-wave CMOS transceiver front-end circuits for future energy-efficient, linear, and wideband communication systems
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2020-08-06)To address the exponentially growing data-rate demand, it is envisioned that mm-Wave will be extensively employed in 5G-and-beyond communication system for its broader spectra and proportionate increases of channel capacity. ... -
Distributed learning and inference in deep models
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2020-07-22)In recent years, the size of deep learning problems has been increased significantly, both in terms of the number of available training samples as well as the number of parameters and complexity of the model. In this thesis, ... -
High precision accelerometer contact microphones for detection of mechano-acoustic cardiopulmonary signals
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2020-07-27)The objective of this research is to design, fabricate and characterize a MEMS-based Accelerometer Contact Microphone (ACM) that enables wearable measurement of cardiopulmonary mechano-acoustic signals, providing a platform ... -
Subactive techniques for guaranteeing routing and protocol deadlock freedom in interconnection networks
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2020-07-22)Interconnection networks are the communication backbone for any system. They occur at various scales: from on-chip networks between processing cores, to supercomputers between compute nodes, to data centers between high-end ... -
Circuit and algorithm design to enable edge intelligence
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2020-07-22)“Edge Intelligence” (EI) is a promising alternative to a centralized could-IoT paradigm that has inherent advantages with communication cost, processing latency, data security, network robustness, and so on. However, EI ... -
Physics and engineering of organic solar cells: Electrical p-type doping with phosphomolybdic acid
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2020-07-14)Variations to a solution-based technique to electrically p-type dope conjugated polymer films using 12-molybdophosphoric acid (also referred to as phosphomolybdic acid or PMA) are reported and applied to simplify the ... -
Contention-resolving model predictive control for coupled control systems with shared resources
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2020-07-06)Priority-based scheduling strategies are often used to resolve contentions in resource constrained control systems. Such scheduling strategies inevitably introduce time delays into controls, which may degrade the performance ... -
A miniature vision-based localization system for indoor blimps
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2020-07-28)The blimp, a self-floating airship, has received increasing attention among the robotic community. In the past decade, most research focused on the blimp structure and control system design, while few researchers have shown ... -
Synthesis of alloys and lateral heterostructures of atomically thin transition-metal dichalcogenides for optoelectronic applications
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2020-05-18)The development of novel material platforms is the driving force behind steady advancements in microelectronics and optical sciences. Demonstrating novel functionalities, achieving faster data processing speeds, and ... -
Measurement-based parameter estimation and analysis of power system
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2020-06-01)Currently, power systems are modeled using the offline models of its components. The components’ models are derived during their design. Such an offline approach of modeling can result in an erroneous model of a power ...